PBP: MLS N&A Running USMNT and other International Games Thread {R}

O MLS...
giving up a goal just before half.

 

Dagger.

O MLS

 

It's now disappointing result territory.

 

Now the All Star game can be meaningful if MLS loses.

 

this is so pointless

 

Completely forgot it was even on tonight.

 

US Women are off on their Olympic journey, having kicked off against Zambia. Ten minutes in, all IS but no goals yet.

Last US gold medal was in London 2012. Canada was in 2020(21) and Germany in 2016. I like the changes I've seen since the coaching change.

 

Mal Swanson just scored two in a minute and it's 3-0 after 25.

 

Headline: Swanson Eats Zambians for Dinner

 

Pretty sad to see the Olympics coverage in English behind a paywall.

I've got Telemundo on showing France v Colombia. My antennae is not great, so the coverage is kinda spotty. Could just be my ancient TV though.

 

It's the same everywhere, including the UK.

The BBC which has rights by law, is showing a lot but you need to pay for Eurosport and Discovery+ if you want to watch everything live.

 

Could go back to 1996 where coverage was exclusively on free NBC. On the other hand, the sum total of soccer televised was 20 minutes of the women's gold medal match. Now they make available every event, every sport. That has to cost something. You can get it all for a single digit number of dollars.

 

Disappointing result for the US. 3 goals. All in the first half against 11 Zambians. None when up a player. Fifth straight shut out, but goals are still rare although the chances are becoming much more common.

 

I remember the first times they had channels exclusively for Olympic soccer, but those were cable too so it's not unheard of. Plus, I'm not entirely sure NBC knows the Olympics have begun. If I wanted to drive people to Peacock, I would have hyped the ******** out of podium training for US gymnastics this morning. That was a good watch.

 

There's so much going on at any given moment, that you could never watch it all in real time. I get that it costs. However, Telemundo is showing the Olympics pretty much all day. How can they afford to do it and no one else?

I'd like at least a daily highlight show that covers some events, if not in their entirety, at least highlights of the hgihlights. I believe I remember that happening during the Beijing olymipcs, where you'd get 2hrs of curated events, usually very US-centric. I'm not seeing anything on NBC at all right now. Maybe they'll pick up some of the bigger events on the weekends?

 

From NBC's (and the general public's) POV the Olympics don't really start until tomorrow with the Opening Ceremonies. The next two weeks will have a ton of coverage, including nighty prime-time coverage (which will be essentially those recap shows) every day.

 

NBC will have tons of content on the main network. It will be fine, but if the event you want to watch isn't the thing NBC or Telemundo is choosing to show at the moment, you have to look somewhere else

The Opening Ceremonies haven't happened yet. That's when NBC's big prime time Olympic show starts. Due to time zones it will all be taped content, but fortunately they're no longer embargoing the showcase events, so you can watch them live if you don't want to wait for prime time.

 

OK. Cool. I have been looking this week and just haven't seen anything at all on NBC to date. This makes sense. I will calm down.

 

https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule

On Saturday it looks like they start on NBC itself at 5:30am MT (even earlier on the NBC cable channels) and go straight through until close to midnight, with a break before and after the prime-time coverage for local news.

Monday starts at 8am but once again straight through except local news breaks.

 

I believe the Opening Ceremonies will be live on NBC tomorrow afternoon and then repeated in prime-time. I think this is the first time they've done the Opening Ceremonies live over-the-air when it didn't sync up with American prime-time.

 

Well, at least since the 2020(err 2021) Opening Ceremonies, where were broadcast live starting at 6:55 a.m. Eastern (5:55 a.m. Central). I actually remember being up early for some reason and watching most of it live.

"In the United States, NBC announced that it would broadcast and stream the opening ceremony live in all time zones, (6:55 a.m. Eastern/3:55 a.m. Pacific) in addition to its traditional tape-delayed prime time broadcasts.[153][154][155] With a reported 17 million viewers, ratings declined 36% over the 2016 opening ceremony, while streaming viewers were up by 76%.[156][157]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony#Broadcasting

 

Ah, for some reason I remembered that being only online/streaming, not OTA.

 

Lol! Of course, just when I was feeling proud of both teams.

Canada's men's and women's soccer teams have relied on drones and spying for years, sources say

Coaching staff and contractors working with Canada’s men’s and women’s national soccer teams have been engaged for years in efforts to film the closed-door training sessions of their… pic.twitter.com/GuwijxTMNm

— TSN (@TSN_Sports) July 25, 2024

The Women's head coach has been removed from the Olympics and will probably be fired. What a shitshow.

 

Hail to the Victors!

Is the Michigan defense allowed internationally?